The Rural Life
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.52 (691 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0316741671 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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"A Book for All Seasons" according to T. Munson. Verlyn Klinkenborg's latest book has just been released and apparently it is flying out of bookstores everywhere (within A Book for All Seasons Verlyn Klinkenborg's latest book has just been released and apparently it is flying out of bookstores everywhere (within 3 weeks of it's publication date, it had already gone into a second printing). Klinkenborg is a member of the editorial board of the New York Times, where, for the past five years, he has been writing a column entitled "The Rural Life." Some of . weeks of it's publication date, it had already gone into a second printing). Klinkenborg is a member of the editorial board of the New York Times, where, for the past five years, he has been writing a column entitled "The Rural Life." Some of . "A man you would want as a friend" according to Ian Williams. Like Klinkenborg I own a horse farm, and also like him I am a relative neophyte to the trials and pleasures of operating such a farm. it is from this perspective that I read and enjoyed his book. The intellectual rigor with which he argues his points, combined with the openness and honesty of his country naiveté is both charming and engaging. His descriptio. "Klinkenborg's words flow like a river" according to Karina Holtz. To my knowledge, no one describes the twelve months of the year more articulately than Klingkenborg. With a month-by-month description, he picks out all the details that he believes piece together a single day, and ultimately, a year. His words are deeply poetic; from the description of the windblown grass to the smell of the morning rain, the script strikes nosta
A heady meditation on our relationship to nature, echoing the works of the transcendentalists Thoreau and Emerson, the writing is much closer to poetry than essay.Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. and glimpses events in dozens of country towns from Wyoming and New Hampshire to Minnesota and New Mexico. Others are more intimate passages discussing the author's family and the solace he finds in keeping bees, stacking hay or simply turning earth. . From Publishers Weekly Klinkenborg's third book (after Making Hay and The Last Fine Time) is a selection of columns originally appearing on the New York Times editorial page under the heading "A Rural Life." They document in vivid detail the daily challenges of life in the country, and on a farm in particular. Though this highly personal chronicle lacks any narrative arc other than the changing of the seasons and the a
In THE RURAL LIFE, the hugely admired author of "The Last Fine Time" preserves and makes new the sights, smells, sounds, and poetry of country living. Whether he writes of a small farm in upstate New York, a high pasture deep within the Rocky Mountains, or the bricked edge of a city shuddering in the wake of a "sudden Tuesday," Klinkenborg bears witness to nature's play in language as simple, unsentimental, and direct as life itself.. Composed in sections corresponding to the months of the year, The Rural Life highlights the pleasures and hardships, the reveries and stillness, that each season offers to the willing observer. Here, Verlyn Klinkenborg reveals the beauty of the American landscape, not from a scenic overlook, but through a screened-in porch or from the window of a pickup driving down an empty highway in the teeth of an approaching storm. Klinkenborg brings reports of rural life back to us, his readers, with writing as vivid as high noon on a summer day or as dreamy as a dusk lit by fireflies